I’ve just noticed (thansk Roberto) a Call for Participation for
the Track on Higher Education which will happen at
the Open World Forum 2008 in a few days, entitled
“Towards a Free and Open Source Curriculum for IT
students”.

It will be held on December 1st, 2008, in Paris, France, and
you’ll find more details here.

I happened to notice that bts-link’s maintainer
called for help, which triggered more interest in that
tool.

I’ve started working on bts-link to see how it
works (cool, it’s Python and if it can be useful for Helios,
and started implementing GForge
tracker support in bts-link. That should help keep track of Debian
bugs wrt upstream bugs for projects hosted in GForge forges (like
Sympa, for instance, whose
bugtracker is
hosted in SourceSup).

We’re busy on the first tasks of the HELIOS project… nothing
spectacular to announce publicly, so far.

Still, we have registered a domain for the project (http://www.helios-platform.org/
… which currently redirects to our internal workspace on a
LibreSource forge), and there are
minimal informations about the project available already here.

I hope we’ll have news to provide soon about the project
progress. Keep tuned

P.S.: we’re going to hire an engineer for HELIOS to work with us
in Evry. If you want to work on a R&D project involving
Free/Libre/Open Source software (bugtrackers infrastructure, etc.),
don’t hesitate to get in touch… more detailed position offer to
come in the future.